diff --git a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
index 4883dcf3e1a9..2834841c507e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/sysctl.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_wakeup_granularity;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_child_runs_first;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_is_big_little;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_sync_hint_enable;
+extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_initial_task_util;
 extern unsigned int sysctl_sched_cstate_aware;
 
 enum sched_tunable_scaling {
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index a22df661aaa6..88aca75a6659 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_latency = 6000000ULL;
 
 unsigned int sysctl_sched_is_big_little = 0;
 unsigned int sysctl_sched_sync_hint_enable = 1;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_initial_task_util = 0;
 unsigned int sysctl_sched_cstate_aware = 1;
 
 /*
@@ -687,7 +688,9 @@ void init_entity_runnable_average(struct sched_entity *se)
 	sa->period_contrib = 1023;
 	sa->load_avg = scale_load_down(se->load.weight);
 	sa->load_sum = sa->load_avg * LOAD_AVG_MAX;
-	sa->util_avg = scale_load_down(SCHED_LOAD_SCALE);
+	sa->util_avg =  sched_freq() ?
+		sysctl_sched_initial_task_util :
+		scale_load_down(SCHED_LOAD_SCALE);
 	sa->util_sum = sa->util_avg * LOAD_AVG_MAX;
 	/* when this task enqueue'ed, it will contribute to its cfs_rq's load_avg */
 }
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 4671761ae3c5..4457e107ec20 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -317,6 +317,13 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "sched_initial_task_util",
+		.data		= &sysctl_sched_initial_task_util,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(unsigned int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
+	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "sched_cstate_aware",
 		.data		= &sysctl_sched_cstate_aware,